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We've been indicated for several months now that these features would develop, and they have finally arrived.
What we think it's doing is helping to provide more energy for the storm and shifting it further south. Normally, these storms hit more toward the Pacific Northwest.
You have five- and six-day period of excessive rainfall, then you have a break sometimes.
They're good old country people, ... It's all farmers and firemen and family, quite a group.